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I'll tell you what is boring. (And ageing, actually). And that is TV snobbery. I went to a friend’s house for dinner the other day. It happened to be a Monday, the day after BBC One’s Line of Duty finished. “Have you been watching it?” I asked a man I didn’t know, who was there.

“Oh no, we don’t have a TV,” he replied, proudly, as if he should be immediately awarded the Military Cross. And then he added: “I’m more a book person.”